Pad for copying-books



(No Model.) 2 Sheets- -Sheet 1.

:E@ R. SOLLIDAY. PAD FOR COPYING BOOKS.

No. 451,340. Patented'Apr. 28, 1891;

(No Model.) 2 sheets sheet 2.

E. R. SOLLIDA-Y. PAD FOR COPYING BOOKS.

No. 451,340. Patented Apr. 28, 1891.

* FMQE EDIVARD It. SOLLIDAY, OF LAMBERTVILLE, NEYV JERSEY.

PAD FOR COPYING-BOOKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 451,340, dated April 28, 1891.

Application filed September 21, 1887. Serial No. 250.331. (N0 specimens.)

' To aZZ whom it may concern.-

in place therein, and Fig. 2 a similar view of the pad removed from the book.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of the figures.

The object of my invention is to provide an improvement in pads for use in copyingbooks; and to this end my invention consists in the pad constructed and arranged as hereinafter specified.

In moistening-pads as heretofore made for use with copying-books the corners of the pad have been cut off to prevent any press ure upon direct contact of the moisteningsurface with the corners of the leaves being treated. Such pads, however, have been defeotive and objectionable in that they were not so constructed as to prevent access of moisture to the exposed corners of those leaves behind the pad which it was not intended to moisten. In order to prevent this undesirable wetting of leaves back of the moistening-pad, a separate sheet of oiled paper or other water-proof material had to be used.

The special object of my invention has been to produce as a single article of manufacture a complete pad which, without the aid of the separate oiled sheet, will moisten the leaves as desired without causing pressure to be brought to bear on thin corners and without any possibility of the undesirable wetting of the leaves not in front of the pad.

In the drawings, A designates a copy-book which can be of any well-known form, construction, or manufacture, and B designates one of my improved pads therein.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, this pad is one of blotting-paper, and has a back or holder 0 of waterproof material, such as is used in the well-known Chadwick copying-book, where itis desired to keep some of the leaves of the book damp ready for use, and the pad is therefore kept wet. At its sides this back or holder C is, as shown, formed with narrow pockets, into which the edges of the sheet or connected sheets of blotting-paper project and by which they are held.

As shown in the drawings, the corners of the pad proper, as distinguished from the back or holder, are cutoff. The corners of the back are left uncut, as shown, so that the leaves of the book behind or below the pad may be kept entirely separated from the damp leaves on the other side of the pad. I do not limit myself to the cutting off of any particular ones or number of the corners.

WVhere the pad is to be put in the book always in one way it is sufficient if the outer corners only are cut off. If desired,only one of the outer corners need be cut, as this will insure that the leaves at that one corner will not be subjected to pressure, and consequently that they will not stick together there, but can be easily separated when the book is to be opened at any page. There both the upper and lower outer corners of the leaves are treated with a preparation to make them impervious to moisture, both such corners of the pad should be cut off, so as to relieve the prepared leaf-corners of pressure during the use of the book in copying. As indicated hereinbefore, this relieving of the treated corners from pressure prevents the sticking or adhering together which is liable to occur when they are pressed into close contact with each other, and also the squeezing of moisture from the leaves.

I do not limit myself to any material for or way of manufacturing the pad, as my invention has merely to do with the forming of the pad, so as to prevent pressure upon portions of the leaves of the copying-book where pressure is undesirable or injurious and the wetting of the corners of the leaves back of the pad by moisture passing around the cut corners of the latter.

If desired, instead of cutting a corner of the absorbent or moisture-receiving part of the pad entirely off, a portion of it can be cut away so as to reduce the thickness of the pad at that point. This will prevent undue pressure upon the leaves above the reduced portion. Such cutting away or thinning of the scribed, so as to separate the sheets or leaves corner is entirely within the scope of and inback of the pad entirely from the ones being volves no departure from my invention. moistened.

Having thus described my invention, what In testimony that I claim the foregoing I 5 I claim is have hereunto set my hand this 17th day of 15 A moistening-pad [or use in copying-books, September, A. D. 1887. having the body of moisture-holding material EDWARD R. SOLLIDAY. cut away at one or more of its corners and Witnesses: an attached water-proof back having its cor- 'JORBERT CORYELL,

IO nOl'S uncut, substantially as shown and de- A. D. ANDERSON. 

